The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.
I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.
The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.
I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality.
I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.
Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.
I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.